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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Last Morning. - Band of Imperialists in the distance. Man with sombrero advances, apparently waving flag of truce. On his approach - can it be? - we recognize our ancient enemy of New York. He carries papers in his hand. We are scared, but unintimidated. Get him inside the intrenchment; stamp on him. Examine his papers, - O shame! they are tracts. Swear thus to treat all invaders of the free soil of Cuba. Mysterious stranger says it is n't Cuba, it's Patchoughe, Long Island, and he 's a colporteur, and we are children of wrath. Band (three men and a reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...starry flag we love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORMING OF MISSION RIDGE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

Then o'er the field our torn flag tossed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORMING OF MISSION RIDGE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

Your blushes are his crimson flag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUPID'S MINISTERS. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

...have we a word to say about the general management of the race. The judges and committees who could not tell which boat won, whether Wesleyan or Amherst was second, the order or time of the last boats, and who left the flag on the western bank to be placed by some third person at the last moment, present a picture of mismanagement too deplorable to need any comment. They were appointed to decide the race, however close; the fact that any of these questions have arisen proclaims their inability to fill the positions assigned them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

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